Never murder a man when he's busy committing suicide.

The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples' characters: he cares much--everything--for the exterior uses to which they may be put.... These are men to be moved. How should he move them? He supplies the power; others simply the materials on which that power operates.

A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of this.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

By 'radical,' I understand one who goes too far; by 'conservative,' one who does not go far enough; by 'reactionary,' one who won't go at all.

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.